Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 27 12
Rank change year-on-year +10 -15 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure 139 24 56
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 12.12% 6.33% 12.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.48% 21.05% 41.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 18 46
10th Percentile £412 £185 £185
25th Percentile £466 £350 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.27% -7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £534 £588
90th Percentile £688 £541 £624
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 488 114 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 42.55% 30.08% 29.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 89 97
10th Percentile £366 £249 £206
25th Percentile £425 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £655 £623
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.52% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.20
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £62.40 £15.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% +316.00% -53.85%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 22 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +7 135 £512 +10.70% 24
Doncaster - 1 £525 - 1
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (7.19%) Confluence
2 9 (6.47%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.60%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.72%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 90 (64.75%) AWS
2 85 (61.15%) GCP
3 21 (15.11%) Entra ID
4 20 (14.39%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (13.67%) OpenShift
6 17 (12.23%) GitHub
7 14 (10.07%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (7.19%) Power Platform
9 8 (5.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 7 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (5.04%) Serverless
11 6 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (4.32%) OneDrive
11 6 (4.32%) SaaS
12 4 (2.88%) Azure Storage
12 4 (2.88%) ChatGPT
12 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (2.88%) PowerApps
13 3 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.04%) Firewall
1 7 (5.04%) Network Security
1 7 (5.04%) SAN
2 5 (3.60%) DNS
2 5 (3.60%) Kerberos
2 5 (3.60%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.44%) NAS
3 2 (1.44%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.72%) HTTP
4 1 (0.72%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.72%) VPN
4 1 (0.72%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.47%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.04%) Neo4j
3 7 (5.04%) Power BI
4 6 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.60%) Big Data
5 5 (3.60%) MySQL
6 4 (2.88%) Delta Lake
6 4 (2.88%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.16%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.16%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.44%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.72%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.72%) DataStage
9 1 (0.72%) DB2
9 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.72%) Metadata
9 1 (0.72%) Parquet
9 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (25.90%) Jenkins
2 33 (23.74%) JIRA
3 26 (18.71%) GitLab
4 14 (10.07%) Selenium
5 13 (9.35%) Cucumber
5 13 (9.35%) REST Assured
6 12 (8.63%) Git
7 11 (7.91%) Postman
8 5 (3.60%) Gatling
8 5 (3.60%) JMeter
8 5 (3.60%) TestRail
9 4 (2.88%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.88%) LoadRunner
9 4 (2.88%) NeoLoad
10 3 (2.16%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (2.16%) CircleCI
10 3 (2.16%) Fiddler
11 2 (1.44%) Maven
11 2 (1.44%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.44%) Terragrunt
General
1 60 (43.17%) Social Skills
2 45 (32.37%) Finance
3 27 (19.42%) Banking
4 9 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.04%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.88%) Law
7 4 (2.88%) Legal
8 3 (2.16%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (20.86%) Lead
2 26 (18.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (10.07%) Architect
4 10 (7.19%) Test Automation Engineer
4 10 (7.19%) Test Engineer
5 8 (5.76%) Developer
6 7 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (4.32%) Automation Test Lead
7 6 (4.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.32%) Consultant
7 6 (4.32%) Data Engineer
7 6 (4.32%) Security Engineer
7 6 (4.32%) Test Leader
8 5 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (3.60%) Java Developer
8 5 (3.60%) Lead DevOps
8 5 (3.60%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.60%) Senior
8 5 (3.60%) Test Architect
8 5 (3.60%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.71%) OpenID
2 24 (17.27%) REST
3 22 (15.83%) LDAP
4 16 (11.51%) SailPoint
5 12 (8.63%) OAuth
6 10 (7.19%) SAML
7 8 (5.76%) Kafka
8 7 (5.04%) .NET
8 7 (5.04%) Middleware
9 6 (4.32%) Spring Boot
10 5 (3.60%) OAuth2
10 5 (3.60%) Playwright
10 5 (3.60%) PySpark
11 4 (2.88%) ARM Templates
11 4 (2.88%) JSON
11 4 (2.88%) RESTful
12 3 (2.16%) FIDO
12 3 (2.16%) React
12 3 (2.16%) SLSA
12 3 (2.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.99%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (9.35%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.63%) Onboarding
5 10 (7.19%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.32%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.60%) FlexPod
8 4 (2.88%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.88%) IoT
9 3 (2.16%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.44%) Replication
11 1 (0.72%) EMC VMAX
11 1 (0.72%) EMC VNX
11 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.67%) Linux
2 8 (5.76%) VMS
3 7 (5.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.32%) CoreOS
4 6 (4.32%) Data ONTAP
5 5 (3.60%) Windows
6 4 (2.88%) Unix
7 3 (2.16%) AIX
8 1 (0.72%) Android
8 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (55.40%) DevOps
2 75 (53.96%) CI/CD
3 35 (25.18%) Containerisation
4 32 (23.02%) Agile
5 31 (22.30%) Test Automation
6 30 (21.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (19.42%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (19.42%) Observability
8 25 (17.99%) DevSecOps
9 24 (17.27%) Identity Access Management
9 24 (17.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (15.83%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (14.39%) Migration
13 19 (13.67%) Microservices
14 18 (12.95%) AI
14 18 (12.95%) Analytics
14 18 (12.95%) Data Ingestion
15 17 (12.23%) Data Protection
15 17 (12.23%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 43 (30.94%) Python
2 36 (25.90%) Java
3 29 (20.86%) SQL
4 15 (10.79%) Bash
5 13 (9.35%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.19%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.04%) Go
8 5 (3.60%) PHP
8 5 (3.60%) Scala
9 4 (2.88%) Cypher
9 4 (2.88%) Groovy
9 4 (2.88%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.88%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.88%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.16%) Bicep
11 2 (1.44%) C#
12 1 (0.72%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (4.32%) AWS Certification
1 6 (4.32%) Degree
1 6 (4.32%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.60%) CISSP
2 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (3.60%) OCP
2 5 (3.60%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (2.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (2.88%) CCSP
3 4 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (2.88%) CISM
3 4 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.16%) CCSK
5 2 (1.44%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.44%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.72%) NCDA
6 1 (0.72%) NCIE
6 1 (0.72%) RHCA
6 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.35%) QA
2 6 (4.32%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.60%) NIST
4 4 (2.88%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.88%) SLA
4 4 (2.88%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.16%) GDPR
6 2 (1.44%) GRC
7 1 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.72%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (15.11%) Docker
2 15 (10.79%) Active Directory
2 15 (10.79%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (6.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.04%) NFS
4 7 (5.04%) vSphere
5 5 (3.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 3 (2.16%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.72%) Ceph
8 1 (0.72%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.72%) KVM
8 1 (0.72%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 50 (35.97%) Kubernetes
2 36 (25.90%) Terraform
3 24 (17.27%) Ansible
4 12 (8.63%) Grafana
5 7 (5.04%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.32%) SnapMirror
7 5 (3.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.88%) Kustomize
8 4 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (1.44%) Argo
11 1 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.72%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.72%) Istio
11 1 (0.72%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.72%) Puppet
11 1 (0.72%) SnapVault
11 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (22.30%) Microsoft
2 22 (15.83%) ServiceNow
3 21 (15.11%) Google
4 10 (7.19%) Databricks
5 9 (6.47%) VMware
6 8 (5.76%) Oracle
6 8 (5.76%) Red Hat
6 8 (5.76%) Splunk
7 7 (5.04%) NetApp
7 7 (5.04%) OpenAI
8 4 (2.88%) Alibaba
9 3 (2.16%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.16%) Aruba
9 3 (2.16%) CyberArk
9 3 (2.16%) IBM
9 3 (2.16%) MuleSoft
9 3 (2.16%) Okta
10 2 (1.44%) EMC
10 2 (1.44%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.44%) Veeam